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good ads ANNOYING ads

Post by chapium » Tue May 31, 2005 4:35 am

First I'd like to say.. the caffinated hamster ad made me laugh. Good stuff. Nice respectable ad.

However... check this bad boy out:

http://images.reallifecomics.com/banner ... 36b8689e8b

Just some feedback on the ad campaign.. Mmmm feedback. :D
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Post by RandyWang » Tue May 31, 2005 9:04 am

I recommend violence.

I mean, on the plus side, those are INFINITELY better than the ads we had previous to Liz discovering the evils of the previous ad provider. That one you point to is merely annoying compared to some of the last lot.
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Post by Pedric » Tue May 31, 2005 9:58 am

[Edit by greg: You think you're clever, but I'd appreciate you keeping this kind of thing to yourself. It doesn't hurt me in the slightest, but still... c'mon now.]
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Post by JimmyDean » Tue May 31, 2005 10:50 am

did you see the Souls of Glass ad? It's 183Kb! That's a bit intense for such a small ad.
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Post by Scotty » Tue May 31, 2005 11:29 am

it's showing as being 163Kb on my end? you typo?
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Post by JimmyDean » Tue May 31, 2005 11:41 am

yeah typo.
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Post by Deacon » Tue May 31, 2005 3:26 pm

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Yeah, it's annoying, but they're supposed to be attention grabbing. At least we're not being told to punch the paparazzi as Ben Aflec runs towards us...
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Post by dmpotter » Tue May 31, 2005 3:48 pm

Well, it succeeds in being attention-grabbing enough that reading the actual text on the ad is really annoying.

I thought Dish Network was large enough to have decent ads, guess I was wrong...
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Post by Mae Dean » Tue May 31, 2005 4:08 pm

*shrug* Hey, they wanna use that ad, I won't stop them. It's not that it's annoying - but I doubt anyone's gonna buy from them, honestly.
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Post by WCH » Tue May 31, 2005 5:07 pm

Honestly, no ad annoys me anymore, except for those hellspawn ads with audio. Especially on lyric websites! I'll be listening to some song I'm getting into, Google the name to get some lyrics, start to read them, and then some God damn lady starts telling me about some product I swear I'll boycott, and then you actually have to go up and find the audio off button on the ad itself just so you can go back to listening to the damn music you came there for in the first place... :x

Compared to that hell, I'll take a moving light. Doesn't bother me.
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Post by dmpotter » Tue May 31, 2005 6:08 pm

Try Flashblock. No more annoying audio from ads! It's kind of funny, Flashblock winds up being essentially an ad-blocker for my machine due to the vast number of Flash-based ads. Animated GIFs I can accept - barely. Flash-based ads? Not so much.
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